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Coloniality is both an attitude and a policy. Characterized by racism, by a form of paternalistic patronage forged by 19th-century Christianity, and by economics, the gestation of this devastating influence on the modern world can be observed in a variety of literatures in English. The European version of it is known as imperialism and the American as expansionism, and while they have different histories, they amount to the same thing. This course will begin with colonial novels contemporary with the Nineteenth-century European conquests of large parts of Africa and India, and then move on to their lingering effects in a world that now strives to be “post-colonial” and “post-race.”
Texts:
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
- Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (2001)
- Alexandra Fuller, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (2008)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (2013)
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